Apart from "The Mission" (his personal favourite), and "Cinema Paradiso", my pick would be "Days Of Heaven", probably his most underrated score. I personally think it's one of the best things he has ever written, and that says a lot. The man is a genius.

I like the 1969/72 era. Argento Horror stuff. ill Gatto a Nove Code soundtrack is a good one.More Improvised, modernist jazz ideas*.I heard rumours that he had hand 90 film soundtracks in the space of 3 years (Most with Bruno Nicolai Conducting) in this period. Amazing output

Guns For San Sabastian Has alot of GBU type themes, ideas.. same era.

The Great Silence Just for the beautiful title theme. Its a sin the soundtrack has never had a decent CD release.

The Sicilian Clan & Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion also really good.

Ill have to checkout Days Of Heaven

*I like how he fused that style with the spaghetti western style on 'Gi La Testa' (Fistful of Dynamite)Theres a track called 'Invention John' its my all time favourite morricone track. hardly used in the film. shame really

There are 2 tracks where you can unmistakingly hear Carpenters Music. Humanity (Part II) (7:15) has Carpenter synthesizer keyboard based rhythm section running the length of the track. This is the music from the opening scenes. Its basicily 3 quarters Morricone, the last quarter when the loud organ type synthesizer solo kicks in, is Carpenter. (In trademark horror overdrive)Maybe there was a colaboration. I hope so. Even though the credits are given completely to Morrricone.

There is the other track that sounds like its just Carpenter, i think it could be 'Wait' ?

Personnaly, I like The Untouchables score of course, but I don't think it's not one of Morricone's best score. I think between The Untouchables and The Last Emperor I would also choose Last Emperor.

But, if The Mission wasn't competing against Last Emperor, who won the Oscar instead of The Mission that year? Anyone knows?

'Untouchbles' was great but I agree that Last Emperor (especially 'Rain')was even more great. I have great respect to Ruyichi Sakamoto ,who is one of huge Morricone admirer, and I think he deserve it. As for 'Crouching Tiger(Yes it's great too), to me the reason 'Crouching Tiger' won was it was better movie than 'Malena'.